Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Excessively or unduly hardy, daring, or confident; foolhardy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Too hardy; overbold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Too
hardy ;overbold .
Etymologies
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over- + hardy
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Examples
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For why, ah overbold, didst thou follow the chase, and being so fair, why wert thou thus overhardy to fight with beasts? '
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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